OpenWest Conference 2013
2 - 4 May 2013 at Utah Valley University

AJ's talk was completely inappropriate, especially given the title and synopsis he submitted, and particularly in the track he submitted. The open source community is all about embracing diversity and the many good ways to get a job done, but his presentation was nothing but hateful and misleading, and a complete disappointment to anyone who came to the talk wanting to learn how to Get Started with PHP.

Contrary to his comment above, PHP is _ABSOLUTELY_ _NOT_ "a generic term meaning any back-end" any more than any other language name is a generic term for a genre of tools. Had he named the talk "Getting Started with Back-End Web Development" he could have easily and appropriately presented his case for any language he wanted. But the misleading nature was uncalled for and inappropriate, even to people who don't like PHP.

I hope speakers like AJ who misrepresent their topic and material are not given speaking slots at future conferences. They're a waste of their audience's time and could be much more productively used by allowing the attendees to see a real talk.

Nice intro to titanium, nothing negative to say. He pointed out the advantages along with the drawbacks to using a tool like this to develop mobile apps. Enough info for me to continue research and decide if it's for me. Keep up the good work!

Great talk, thoroughly enjoyed. Dave demonstrated an in depth understanding of search engines and algorithms. He was well prepared, stayed on target timewise and was able to answer all the questions asked of him. Would definitely visit another class given by him.

Too many technical issues getting this talk going, didn't get into the meat of it until there was about 20 minutes left, took a couple too many tangents on the way. I would've liked to see more of the new core ruby 2.0 features discussed and shown in simple concise examples and it's improvements talked about (gc, load speed, performance, etc). Nice effort, but was a bit disappointed.

Not what I was expecting at all, sorry. A bit too much talk about why we code, why rails is fun and the zen of coding in the flow, not much talk about testing or examples.

Interesting forward thinking talk. Got me thinking about the possibilities, and piqued my interest in joining the development effort around this idea.

Interesting forward thinking talk. Got me thinking about the possibilities, and piqued my interest in joining the development effort around this idea.

Adam did his job in sparking my interest in vagrant, I'm installing and trying it out now. I agree with the comment above about the switch to Puppet, would've preferred maybe more Q&A around vagrant instead of focusing on configuration management for the second half. 4/5 for covering vagrant enough to get me interested and see the potential use case. -1 for puppet.

Adam presented well how to use vagrant and some of its strengths. I would have liked to hear more discussion on why using vagrant instead of just plain old VMs was preferred. Finally the sudden switch to Puppet was a bit disjointed.

Steve knows his stuff. Today we learned a few gems. I was hoping for more of then hows and fixes, but the preso was a great learning stub for my team.